“Rental prices, for one, have soared over the years, according to a recent analysis of housing affordability by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Between 2010 and 2015, median home rent grew an average of 2.3 percent year over year while personal income declined by 0.4 percent annually over the same period. And with demand for affordable housing exceeding supply, 11.1 million renters today spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing, a group that federal housing agencies describe as “severely cost-burdened,” said WalletHub.

In order to determine the best local rental markets, WalletHub’s analysts compared the 150 most populated U.S. cities across two key dimensions, including “Rental Market & Affordability” and “Quality of Life.”

They evaluated those dimensions using 21 relevant metrics. Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the most favorable conditions for renters.

Finally, WalletHub determined each city’s weighted average across all metrics to calculate its total score then used the resulting scores to rank-order the cities in our sample.